Star Trek: Emergency Deep
S01E19 “The Neutral Zone Crossover”
S01E19 The Neutral Zone Crossover title card
Dramatis Personae
- Capt Greg Ellison, Human-Deltan Commanding Officer (Dan)
- Dr Patrick Troughton, Human Chief Medical Officer (Doug)
- Cmdr Morpheus Drake, Human Executive Officer / Flight Officer (NPC)
- Lt Cmdr Galinha, Tamarian Chief Operations Officer (Ivan)
- Lt JG John Hippocampus, Beluga whale Chief Science Officer (Razz)
Stardate: 58615.8. August 14th, 2381.
Question…?
Previously, the crew of the USS Östergötland NCC-72227 detained the merchant marine ship SS Yongbi Eocheonga. Presently in orbit around Mandos III, the Starfleet starship have detained the Eocheonga‘s crew, a group of Romulan infiltrators from the Tal Shiar splinter group known as Ullho Lonveni.
Capt. Greg Ellison believes they need to discover when the ship’s crew was replaced by Romulans. Lt. J.G. John Hippocampus & Ensign Lucas Garcia beam to the Eocheonga to do a full computer systems check. Meanwhile, Dr. Patrick Troughton formulates a truth serum that would work on Romulan physiology, using their Vulcan Linguist Ensign T’niu as a biological baseline.
First, Chief of Security Lt. Libby dos Santos interrogates the entirety of the 32 detainees, discovering that “Crewman Byron” is the Romulan subcommander in charge of this particular Lonveni cell, and not “Captain Lee“. Then, Troughton also refines the interrogation to confirm Byron’s role. Security then isolates Byron from his crew & Troughton administers his petweeathian truth drug.
The party aboard the Östergötland
Ellison then applies his persuasion skills, Romulan knowledge & Deltan empathy to break Byron down. Byron tells him that their base in at Pedrocal V across the Romulan Neutral Zone & their UFP port is on Throvan II where Chief Qaenlahr joined the Orion whaling starship which the Östergötland fought at the ocean world Trychnos.
Then Executive Officer Cmdr. Morpheus Drake interrogates Byron with an offering of Romulan ale. This gambit works. The drugged & inebriated Romulan subcommander tells them the coordinates of the Pedrocal system.
Lavender Haze
Hippocampus’ away team beams back. He reports that they have detailed scan records of Pedrocal V from the Eocheonga databanks. The entire star system is hidden within a cloud of ionised particles. Sensors & beaming to, from and within it would be limited. The Pedrocal primary is a white dwarf. Also, there are 50 Federation prisoners there & Cmdr. Sally Ellison, the captain’s sister, is among them.
Soon after transmitting their intel, Admiral Kathryn Janeway contacts them, assigning them a mission to sneak into the Neutral Zone to investigate Pedrocal and if possible rescue the prisoners. En route, they will rendezvous with the USS Sienkiewicz NCC-88034 at the Romulan border to transfer their prisoners.
Remember in 2d20, you need to roll low
At warp, Ellison orders Operations Officer Lt. Cmdr. Galinha, aided by Ensign Garcia, to adapt one of the Tosk cylinder cloaking devices for Östergötland use. Dr Troughton preps a procedure to surgically alter them into Romulans.
Sweet Nothing
After successfully testing their new cloak by stalking the Sienkiewicz, they decloak, make contact with her Cardassian Acting Captain Kodar Tamat. Captain Tamat beams the Lonveni agents onto his own brig before resuming their voyage back to Sector 001. Lt. Cmdr. Galinha figures that the Tosk cloak is a game changer, performing much better than the Romulan cloak they scavenged from the Orion whaler on Trychnos.
Then, the Östergötland warps into the Romulan Neutral Zone to accomplish their rescue mission…
A meeting in the Romulan Neutral Zone
To be continued
Notes
Sudden appearance of the USS Sienkiewicz from the Thine Own Self campaign!
